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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray is the author of 12 acclaimed books of history and biography, and a frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail, Literary Review of Canada, CBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Her biographies of Isabel Mackenzie King and Alexander Graham Bell were both finalists for Writers’ Trust nonfiction prizes. While at Berton House Writers’ Retreat, she researched and wrote Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, which was later adapted into a television miniseries. A member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Gray lives in Ottawa, where she is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. 

Charlotte Gray

Writers & Books

Award History

2006 - Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

for

Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell


1997 - Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

for

Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

Program History

2019 - Selector

Rising Stars

Selection

Author Selected

Works Recognized by WT

Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

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Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

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